What do you think it would be like if Earth got knocked out of orbit and wound up as a moon to Jupiter?

[Daniela1982]

Ignoring the fact that we would all be dead before we go there, what do you think it would be like to be mooned?

[Losalt]

A moon around Jupiter would be horrible.
And being too close to any gas giant wouldn't be a nice experience at all, strong magnetic fields from the gas giant would make life impossible on the surface, you'd need a thick layer of ice or something around you to protect you from the radiation.
Hum...
If living on a moon where to be a option I think it would have to be one in orbit around a water world.
One of those gigant Earths that's a little too small to be a gas giant.
But too big for a regular rocky planet.
The atmosphere and the sea kind of gradually flows into each other due to the pressure.
With very little difference between the two.
I don't *think* that there would be that much radiation there.
Our own moon would have to be big enough to support a atmosphere long term and a magnetic field to protect it...
For that to work with that small a planet we'd probably have to be far away from the star...
So it would have to be big (and therefore relatively short lived)...
I don't know...
I'm not a subject expert...
But that's what I'm thinking so far...

I think that it could be interesting experience.
And plausible.
Plants would probably have a different colour to utilize the different light frequencies better...
I think any intelligent species there would probably see more ultraviolet given the increased presence of that frequency around such a star...
And have more evolved protections against its damage then we do...

I don't know...

[NamerOfStars]

We'd all die; it'd be far too cold, and the lack of consistent sunlight would cripple plant life. You COULD have life that evolved on such a planet, but it poses some challenges that planets (or binary planet systems, like Earth and the Moon) don't face. Interestingly, and kind of bizarrely, I *DO* have a relevant picture. This is what it'd look like if Jupiter were at the same distance the moon is from us:

Naturally, this wouldn't last long, but it'd look cool as hell.

[vald9inches]

We actually wouldn't be all dead but it would definitely be really cold and the people that survived the famine will live in a winter world until food sources ran out. But life might continue around hot spots like geothermal hot springs and volcanos. There would be a lot of them created from the stress of Jupiter's gravity as we orbit it. I can imagine it being a very beautiful site although a cold one.

[vald9inches]

Sight*

[kellytheman]

Cold and dark also I think the earth be spinning faster in a different axis faster from Jupiter's gravitational pole. Also so. e if Jupiter poisonous atmosphere probably destroy the earth but yeah we would be screwed even if we get passed a asteroid field between Mars and Jupiter.

[Daniela1982]

Jupiter's gaseous atmosphere would not affect anyone on Earth any more than Earth's would affect the moon.

[worldscolide]

It might make for some incredibly long nights and incredibly long days.. Our oceans would definitely not like it, We have high tide and low tide now, it would get way worse. Thats only if the radiation from Jupiter doesn't fry us first. All in all terrifying.

[888theGreat]

Moon me and I will tell you.

I don't worry about stuff like that or an asteroid hitting earth. I figure it would be over pretty fast.

[Crafteroon]

We're already getting mooned. It's just that instead of a gas planet it's a one that is on fire and slowly roasting us from time to time.

[exitseven]

I just knew there would be a punchline in there someplace. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Daniela1982]

What? You even doubted? :)

[Aakash_Hangargi]

Who will knock you off though?

I mean the earth to Jupiter 😸

[Daniela1982]

Well, might be something like what happened in the Space 1999 where some explosion on the moon propelled it out of orbit.
https://youtu.be/tsmefY94E_0

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

It would be so cold that all the water would freeze and if we were close in enough, Jupiter's radiation belts would strip the atmosphere.

[TallAnon]

All water would quickly vaporize, the landscape would be hell, temperatures so high nothing would live.

[Daniela1982]

But the further from the sun we get the colder it would get. So the temps would not be high, but low. In the 8 years it took to get there we would all be frozen popsicles.

[EarthRealm]

@Daniela1982
If you were a Frozen Popsicle I would Eat you.

[007kingifrit]

we would see the sun get smaller and smaller and go totally dark, eventually oxygen would turn to snow and rain down from the sky as it froze. then nothing, we would all freeze

[blondfrog]

We would get pulled by its gravity in a little less than a year. About 9 months the Earth would collide with Jupiter.

[captain_voidwalker]

You would freeze to death, or if your orbit was to close you'd burn to death, jupiter has vastly more powerful van Alan belts than earth does.

[Likes2drive]

Some nights could last days depending on rotation

[Hardworkingguy]

We would probably end up dead because of the short distance with Jupiter

[KrakenAttackin]

Bad. Jupiter is one bad mother blasting Gamma radiation like crazy.

[Twalli]

Do you have any idea how much force would be needed to make this possible?

[EarthRealm]

Let me guess your the know it all so MR know it all how much force would it take

[MrTaboo]

Good by climate. Hello dead planet

[Massageman]

A mess just before ceasing to exist.

[Staximus]

We would freeze to death

[maximumpower]

It would be like any other dead planet.

[Anthony20108]

we would be well dead lol

[Anonymous]

We'd all freeze to death.

[Daniela1982]

Maybe not.
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may be the most promising place in the solar system to find present-day environments suitable for life beyond Earth.

Scientists study the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe in a scientific field called astrobiology. They’ve found that life as we know it requires three main ingredients: temperatures that allow liquid water to exist; the presence of carbon-based molecules; and an energy input, such as sunlight.

Europa seems to have all three ingredients. But to understand why it’s a uniquely captivating target for astrobiology, it helps to know a bit about a few other moons and planets in the solar system. The story starts with water.
We would be like it was during the last ice age but people survived.

[_deeznuts]

no lol

[FunkyMonkee]

We'd all die.

[britishbby]

Cold...

[Pudsmucker]

A lot of chaos.

[msc545]

Seriously?